Twenty years in the near East

Twenty years in the near East Hulme-Beaman, Ardern G. (Ardern George) 1857-1929 text text enk London Methuen & co. 1898 monographic eng viii, 315 pages, 1 unnumbered page : frontispiece (portrait) ; 24 cm Autobiography of a British consul at Constantinople, Damascus, Cairo, and other postings in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Hulme-Beaman discusses the difficulties faced in his career--international tensions, legal troubles, extralegal executions, cultural misunderstandings, disease outbreaks, etc.--as well as friendly episodes with the people he lived and worked with. His topics range from class conflict in Serbia, to bear hunting, warfare in Crete, publishing his own newspaper (the Times of Egypt), English foreign policy, and trout fishing. No Known Copyright by Ardern G. Hulme-Beaman ... aw----- Middle East Description and travel DR427 .B36 1898 914.96 B37 Twenty years in the near East Hulme-Beaman, Ardern G. (Ardern George), 1857-1929. London, Methuen & Co., 1898 (OCoLC)645862369 01017940 1511576 DLC 750805 20120325022755.0 ocm01511576 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.5 using MARC21slim2MODS3-5.xsl (Revision 1.111 2016/3/24)